Ventura County Star:
Simi Valley special effects specialists Enrique Bilsland and Scott Inoue were accustomed to creating something out of nothing.
‘They say: OK, we need a talking pig. You don’t go to the talking pig store,” said Bilsland, who worked on the 2006 production ‘Charlotte’s Web.’
Inoue got to make things explode. ‘On Baywatch,’ I blew up a lot of boats,’ he said.
Now, rather than using their wits to invent movie magic, the 2 are trying to work a little magic to reinvent themselves.
Neither one scrapbooks and neither has ever run a business before, so they decided to open a scrapbooking store in Simi Valley.
Huh?
‘Most of the time I’m destroying things. It was time to create something,’ Inoue said with a grin.
So how did these 2 Simi Valley natives go from talking pigs and exploding boats to rubber stamps and scalloped ribbons?
It all started with a sandwich board. Read on…
Photo: Rob Varela / Star staff E.B.B.
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